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By Daniel Trotta NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jews for Jesus thought it was amusing
to put comedian Jackie Mason's image on a pamphlet aimed at
converting Jews to Christianity, but Mason found it no laughing
matter and has sued the group for $4 million.

By Steven Scheer LOD, Israel (Reuters) - Immigration to Israel is expected
to post a three-year high in 2006, boosted by a jump in those
moving to the Jewish state from North America and France,
Israel's agency for immigration said on Thursday.

By Louis Charbonneau BERLIN (Reuters) - A 73-year-old Holocaust survivor was
elected president of one of Germany's biggest Jewish bodies on
Wednesday, the first time a woman has been chosen a leader of
the country's Jewish community.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - As Jews around the world observe the
weeklong festival of Passover, a solitary pair in Shanghai are
believed to be all that's left of a tide of Jewish immigrants
that once filled the bustling Chinese city.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A senior Muslim cleric said on
Thursday he asked Israel's Supreme Court to stop construction
of a museum dedicated to human rights and tolerance in
Jerusalem after bones from an old Muslim cemetery were found
during foundation work.

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four Jewish mothers who lived 1,000
years ago in Europe are the ancestors of 40 percent of all
Ashkenazi Jews alive today, an international team of
researchers reported on Friday.

By Oliver Bullough MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia must start enforcing its
anti-extremism laws to stop a racist groundswell turning into
mass bloodshed, Jewish leaders warned on Thursday, a day after
a knife attack on Jews in a synagogue.

Discovery of an ancient village just outside Jerusalem has brought into question one of the strongest images of biblical times - the wholesale flight of Jews running for their lives after the Roman destruction of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D.